what would happen if we didnt recycle?

Answer 1

if this process did not happen not a single livining thing remain in this world.

Answer 2

Recycling has been a common practice throughout human history. In pre-industrial times, scrap made of bronze and other precious metals was collected in Europe and melted down for perpetual reuse, and in Britain dust and ash from wood and coal fires was downcycled as a base material in brickmaking. The main driver for these types of recycling was the economic advantage of obtaining recycled feedstock instead of acquiring virgin material, as well as a lack of public waste removal in ever more-populated sites.

Paper recycling began in Britain in 1921, when the British Waste Paper Association was established to encourage trade in waste paper recycling.

Resource shortages caused by the world wars, and other such world changing occurances greatly encouraged recycling. Massive government promotion campaigns were carried out in World War II in every country involved in the war, urging citizens to donate metals and conserve fibre, as a matter of significant patriotic importance. Resource conservation programs established during the war were continued in some countries without an abundance of natural resources, such as Japan, after the war ended.
There may also be drawbacks with the collection methods associated with recycling. Increasing collections of separated wastes adds to vehicle movements and the production of carbon dioxide. This may be negated however by centralised facilities such as some advanced material recovery facilities of mechanical biological treatment systems for the separation of mixed wastes.

Answer 3

Well, you will be wasting paper, water and oil for nothing. throwing paper away when you can recycle it, i think that's a total waste. remember, that 1 ton of recycled paper saves 7000 gallons of water, 17 trees and 136 gallons of oil. It's always better to recycle.
If you don't, well the paper will end up in garbage dump, and it'll help the dump get bigger for nothing.
In recycling, you're helping the environment.

Answer 4

Matter is neither created nor destroyed, only converted.

Paper would decompose, but plastic would pose a problem. Basically, we'd have usable elements (carbon, hydrogen, etc.) trapped in the products we haven't recycled.

Answer 5

Things wud be exhausted soon. V all shud recycle if we love r environment.

Answer 6

Pretty soon we'd be up to our armpits in rubbish, the planet would stink and there would be nothing left for us to use up.
Better off dead after that.

Answer 7

They would have a lot more swampy land fills to build housing subdivisions on.

Answer 8

another land fill site ..which the builders can build on in 50yrs

Answer 9

nothing specieal things will just go a little faster for us.

Answer 10

Thanks for the two points.